Ann Florini is a Fellow in the Political Reform Program at New America, where she spearheads work on the climate/democracy nexus.

She is also Vice Chair of the Economics of Mutuality Foundation Board; a board member of the Climate Democracy Initiative; a Senior Global Futures Scientist and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University; and a Founding Member of the Council on Economic Policies.

Following senior stints at the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment, she founded the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the National University of Singapore and created a Masters on Tri-Sector Collaboration at Singapore Management University.

Her numerous books and articles have addressed innovations in governance, China’s governance, transparency and information flows in governance, the roles of civil society and the private sector in addressing public problems, and climate and energy policy.